#scheduled self rb for timezones

[kirbysongtourney]

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[pokemonunderdogtournament]

Hi! I've seen you receive a (rather rude) message in the past about the 12-hour later reblogs of new polls - I am not here to be rude about them. They are kind of frustrating for me and hard to filter off my dash. I'm guessing the reason for them is so people don't miss the polls. Is there any chance you'd make a poll for who likes/wants those reblogs and who doesn't?

Ah, yes, so the purpose of the 12th hour rbs is basically to cast a wide net for those in different time zones/people who are going on Tumblr at different times of day. If you see one poll on your dash, you may be motivated to pop in here to see what else you might've missed and so on.

The problem with removing them is, I have consistently seen large numbers of votes come from the timezone reblogs, moreso even than letting the polls run for more than one day, so they are, on a significant level, vital to the health of the tournament.

I guess the main thing I don't necessarily understand is what specifically about them makes them hard to filter out vs other posts you want to filter out? I am more than willing to update aspects of the tagging system if there is something about my specific tag that makes it difficult. (Additionally, if you are primarily a desktop user, X-Kit allows you to minimize and even entirely hide filtered posts, though these settings apply to all filtered posts.)

If that parenthetical isn't a solution, there is always the option of following the poll tag specifically (#uptunderdogtournament) and unfollowing this blog. It exists pretty much for that purpose. I'm not sure how many people do that but it was at least one for the main tournament.

But yeah, because of how important it is, I'd even be more inclined to switch to one day polls than to remove the timezone rbs (not that that's on the table—no one has complained about the 1-week polls). The only other option I can think of is to switch them to halfway reblogs, which wouldn't reduce the number of self-reblogs at all, but at the very least they'd be more separated temporally. I had originally thought of implementing this in the main tournament but figured the cons (even more clutter, scheduling conflicting with other 12th hour rbs) outweighed the benefits. The problem with switching to this only is that it de-emphasizes the importance of wanting to deliver these polls to the full international audience, at least within the same 24 hour period.

There is, of course, a lot more to say specifically about the strategy of these rbs. For instance, reblogging only a few does mean less clutter, but it also unbalances the polls—some people won't check what they've missed—so this is not an option... But I figure you sending this ask was not an invitation for me to write a full book on why I see them as vital lol, so just know like there's more than what I included here.

[fuckingguide]

going to be scheduling a bunch of reblogs of the vid for people in other timezones btw so feel free to blacklist the tag “self rb” if you don’t want to see them

[jbbarnesandnoble]

this question isnt related to the ask game you posted but i was wondering if you could help me please, what do you think is the best time/hour of the day to post fanfiction?

Hey nonny, I'll be honest, I don't know what time is best for posting. Tumblr usually recommends posting between 12am and 4am since that's when people are most active (that's also coming from a us east coast timezone, so it might be different for you)

But I'll tell you what I like to do. I like to keep a 24hr cycle on it. I mainly post fics at night, or late afternoon ( when I assume more people will be active) usually between 4pm and 10pm (but I'm not consistent at all! That's always changing) after I post it, I reblog it every two hours. This way people from different timezones will hopefully see it. I do this because if I post it one and never reblog it, I might, if I'm lucky, get 5 notes not that people interact with my fics all that often anyway before I go to bed, I'll schedule a few reblogs (scheduled for two hours apart) once I wake up, I'll keep rb them up until the same time I posted it (from the day before. For example, if I post at 4pm, I'll stop reblogging it at 4pm the next day)

I do it this way so hopefully people's timelines aren't overtaken by my fic, but just enough so they see it. I hope this makes sense and helps! You also don't have to do it this way, this is just how I like to do it. Everyone is different.

One last thing, you can queue the fic, but if you schedule it you can customize the time to your liking and don't be scared to self rb! It helps a whole lot and a lot of writers do it! :)) hope this helps!

[faerociousbeast]

I posted 6,887 times in 2021

2743 posts created (40%)

4144 posts reblogged (60%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 1.5 posts.

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#5

uncropped screenshots are fun bc you can focus on everything except for what they were trying to show you. why are you at 2% charge? check your damn discord notifs. wtf is that tab you have open

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#4

HE ASKED FOR NO PICKLES!!!!!!

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#3

i think we should all be able to wear whatever we want and afford it while also not getting looked down in society upon like why the fuck are you getting mad that someone walked in during your shift dressed in wizard robes jessica you should be grateful youre getting to witness this

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#2

most fucked up found family to date has got to be the tumblr mutuals

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#1

made one of these :DD id under cut for accessibility, and also bc my handwriting kinda sucks i prolly shouldve typed this out instead

[ID: An ask game featuring 9 different coloured circles. In order, there is a lime green circle, navy blue, magenta, in the next row there is light blue, yellow, purple, and in the final row there is red, pink, and green.

Energy:

- very upbeat! uses a lot of caps and exclamation marks!!! - SO MANY MUTUALS - has a favourite animal and rbs posts of them

zzz...

- PLEASE SLEEP - always online - incomprehensible posts - what??? timezone??? - intimidating cryptid

Disco:

- YEAAHH FUNKY - great taste in music - doesn’t really stick to one aesthetic

Lofi:

- chill vibes doesn’t really post much - might have different fandoms/mutual groups

Lemn:

- FUN FUN FUN - greatest ideas ever - bestie material - really awesome to talk with

Sweater:

- famous artist/writer pal - cool! nice! how are we even mutuals - GENDER.

Vampire:

- soo cool. what is up with that - also weird hours - famous for weird reasons, had at least ONE post blow up

Cherry:

- AESTHETIC! - so talented but doesn’t realize it - really sweet but seems to be afraid of interacting :( (sad emoticon)

Cactus:

- parent friend - actually has some sort of schedule - mature, makes self help or drink water reminder posts

/End ID]

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[fuckingguide]

fyi for anyone who’s new i’m scheduling some reblogs of the video for the next 24 hours or so for people in other timezones. they’re all tagged “self rb”, so feel free to blacklist the tag if needed